Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know About Iowa Labor History?

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By Ellie Konfrst

December 8, 2022

</p> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>Which union did Iowa-born worker John Lewis lead for 40 years?</h3> <ul> <li>United Auto Workers</li> <li>National Education Association</li> <li>United Mine Workers of America</li> <li>International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>In which year did the first major strike in Iowa take place?</h3> <p><p>Hint: It involved railroad workers in Council Bluffs, Burlington, and Ottumwa.</p></p> <ul> <li>1871</li> <li>1877</li> <li>1887</li> <li>1890</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>Which Iowa town was home to the very first local of the American Railway Union?</h3> <ul> <li>Council Bluffs</li> <li>Fort Madison</li> <li>Dubuque</li> <li>Carroll</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>What company decision prompted the Maytag Strike of 1938 in Newton?</h3> <ul> <li>Reduction in health care benefits</li> <li>Layoffs</li> <li>Unsafe working conditions</li> <li>Pay cuts</li> </ul> </section> <section data-block="SingleChoice"> <h3>This is an audio file of an interview with Albert Jennings, formerly a president of a local firefighters’ union. Use your deduction skills: in what decade do you think he was president?</h3> <p><p>Audio file courtesy of the Iowa Labor History Oral Project.</p></p> <ul> <li>1920s</li> <li>1940s</li> <li>1960s</li> <li>1980s</li> </ul> </section> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>

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